Combined Heat and Power Economic Dispatch(CHPED)is an important problem in the energy field,and it is beneficial for improving the utilization efficiency of power and heat energies.This paper proposes a Modified Genet...Combined Heat and Power Economic Dispatch(CHPED)is an important problem in the energy field,and it is beneficial for improving the utilization efficiency of power and heat energies.This paper proposes a Modified Genetic Algorithm(MGA)to determine the power and heat outputs of three kinds of units for CHPED.First,MGA replaces the simulated binary crossover by a new one based on the uniform and guassian distributions,and its convergence can be enhanced.Second,MGA modi-fies the mutation operator by introducing a disturbance coefficient based on guassian distribution,which can decrease the risk of being trapped into local optima.Eight instances with or without prohibited operating zones are used to investigate the efficiencies of MGA and other four genetic algorithms for CHPED.In comparison with the other algorithms,MGA has reduced generation costs by at least 562.73$,1068.7$,522.68$and 1016.24$,respectively,for instances 3,4,7 and 8,and it has reduced generation costs by at most 848.22$,3642.85$,897.63$and 3812.65$,respectively,for instances 3,4,7 and 8.Therefore,MGA has desirable convergence and stability for CHPED in comparison with the other four genetic algorithms.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)under Grant 61873272,62073327in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant BK20200086,BK20200631.
文摘Combined Heat and Power Economic Dispatch(CHPED)is an important problem in the energy field,and it is beneficial for improving the utilization efficiency of power and heat energies.This paper proposes a Modified Genetic Algorithm(MGA)to determine the power and heat outputs of three kinds of units for CHPED.First,MGA replaces the simulated binary crossover by a new one based on the uniform and guassian distributions,and its convergence can be enhanced.Second,MGA modi-fies the mutation operator by introducing a disturbance coefficient based on guassian distribution,which can decrease the risk of being trapped into local optima.Eight instances with or without prohibited operating zones are used to investigate the efficiencies of MGA and other four genetic algorithms for CHPED.In comparison with the other algorithms,MGA has reduced generation costs by at least 562.73$,1068.7$,522.68$and 1016.24$,respectively,for instances 3,4,7 and 8,and it has reduced generation costs by at most 848.22$,3642.85$,897.63$and 3812.65$,respectively,for instances 3,4,7 and 8.Therefore,MGA has desirable convergence and stability for CHPED in comparison with the other four genetic algorithms.